Day 58 Monday 20th August. Darwin – Kakadu (Cooinda)

Packed up our gear and did a few things at the shops in Palmerston before leaving Darwin at 1pm. We arrived at Adelaide river in time for the 3pm “Spectacular Jumping Crocs Cruise” at the Windows on Wetlands area. Before the boat left the girls enjoyed the snake handling, with Ava not hesitating when the handler asked for a volunteer to hold the water python around their neck!!! Olivia was next but the rest of the family were quite content with touching it only!! The cruise was in a small boat and well worth it, we saw about 8 different crocs jumping for meat which was held out on a stick. We left here and headed on to our campsite at Cooinda  http://www.gagudju-dreaming.com/Gagudju-Camping-Cooinda/Overview.aspx  , which we arrived at after dark.

 Ava was the first to hold the snake

 Olivia followed

 This was within arms reach of the boat!!!

 This was the big daddy, about 100YO so they say and about 6m long.

 At the end the birds swooped down to the boat, this was nearly as good as the crocs.

We enter Kakadu